"Lord, to whom shall we go?" Charting the Course of the Church from Here to the Second Coming: Part 7

Enough Tip-Toeing Around

You may have noticed I've been avoiding something. 

You see, I know where this Series is headed, and it is hard for me to write about it because it sort of breaks my heart. 

I guess I am an anti-Jonah: instead of running away from Nineveh because I don't like them, I am running away because I do. 

As if my silence would change anything.  (At least it wouldn't distress the tender hearts of my friends and family.)

But the Lord asked us to warn our neighbors.  You see, you don't have to warn the whole world.  You just have to go next door.

   It becometh every man
   who hath been warned
   to warn his neighbor.

(D&C 88:81)

So it is time for me to climb out of the whale's belly and get to business.  Really, it is no big secret what lies ahead of us and what lies ahead for the Church.  After all, the scriptures spell it out pretty well.

But that's the problem: the scriptures teach something contrary to our typical worldview.

And I have been loathe to capsize anyone's faith by overturning our carnal-security paradigm.

But, here goes.  Better hold on tight. 

Mouths of Two or Three Witnesses

Why the sudden courage?  Well, I decided to forge ahead while reading my friend's latest blog post, whose words are blunt yet beautiful, and who inspired me with his testimony:

​Concerning the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it was prophesied that instead of becoming a more Zion like people since the commencement of this last dispensation, they would acquire more of the characteristics of Babylon.

Instead of becoming God's peculiar people, a nation of kings and priests, they would become an idolatrous people, a people under condemnation, treating lightly the things or words they have received.

It is prophesied that Babylon and everything and everyone remaining in Babylon will be destroyed before the Lord's Second Coming, and the Mormon gentiles will be the catalyst for the destruction in the Lord's end time.

There is hope, however, according to the prophets, that they who repent will be numbered among the House of Israel. These prophets also prophesied that the Lord's people in the latter-days would deceive themselves, having been on a diet of vomit and excrement, and that the only answer to this self deception is the word of God, or direct personal revelation from God. Only through this direct personal revelation can they be instructed to avoid being drunk with the wine of their self deception. 

"Disruptive Theology," Given by the Finger of God, blogpost dated September 27, 2021; accessed at 
https://fingerofgod.blogspot.com

   Oh no.  Did I mention Spoiler Alert?

Not a Day of Many Words

I know this is "not a day of many words" (D&C 63:58).  But I think we've got enough daylight left to allow us to go through things systematically.

In the ensuring weeks, we'll situate in the prophetic plan:

   1.  Who are the latter-day Gentiles and their promises?

   2.  Who are the latter-day "remnant" and their promises?

   3.  Why is the Book of Mormon far more important than we thought?

   4.  Who will build the New Jerusalem?

   5.  How can we be prepared?